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Australia: Wage and salaried workers, total

83.90percent · 2025+0.6% since 2015

Wage and salaried workers (employees) are those workers who hold the type of jobs defined as "paid employment jobs," where the incumbents hold explicit (written or oral) or implicit employment contracts that give them a basic remuneration that is not directly dependent upon the revenue of the unit for which they work. Reported as: modeled ILO estimate. Annual figures for Australia from 1991 to 2025.

19912025

Every year

YearValue (percent)Note
202583.895
202483.782
202383.655
202283.476
202183.209
202083.299
201983.194
201883.377
201783.118
201683.038
201583.391
201483.404
201383.17
201283.332
201182.423
201082.829
200982.585
200883.5
200782.986
200681.283
200581.17
200480.249
200380.929
200279.803
200179.564
200079.308
199979.077
199878.907
199778.649
199678.472
199578.364
199478.187
199378.029
199278.047
199178.064

Source

Published by World Bank, produced by International Labour Organization. Licence: CC BY 4.0. Retrieved 2026-11-07.

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World Bank (2026). Wage and salaried workers, total. Interva. https://interva.co/dataset/worldbank-wage-and-salaried-workers-total (accessed 2026-11-08). catalog snapshot 2026-11-07.

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